Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-07-20
4 DRUuiIIST'S MISTAKE.
Sick Mans Wife Dsregards the Druggists
Advice and So Saves the Life Of
Her Husband.

am wood carver by trade and it is
out of my line to write letters; but my
wife thought it was no more than right
that I should let you know what your
remedy has done for me, and 1 think
so too.
l live in East 157th street, west of
Third avenue. and have lived there for
about twenty-three years, where / own
real estate. Up to the time am about
to mention l had been strong, well
man. There was always more or less
malaria in the nei9liboihood, but had
not personally suffered from it. 1t was
in 1880 had my first attack. 1t came
on as such attacks commonly do, with
headaches, loss OF appetite and ambi-
ton, chilly sensations with slight fever
afterwards, disposition to yawn and
stretch, and SO forth. [ was employed
at that time at Killians & Brothers,
furniture manufacturers, in West 32d
street. hoped the attack would wear
off, but as it didn' consulted we'll
known and able physician in Morris
ania, who gave me q mime and told me
what to do. | can sum up the first four
and half or five years of my expert
ence in few words. Occasionally 1
was laid up for a day or two, but on
the whole I stuck to my work. kept
taking quinine, in larger doses from
year to year, and kept on getting weak
er and worse, slowly but surely, all the
time My trouble was now well de-
fined and its symptoms were steady and
regular. l had dumb ague in its worst
form, and it was grinding me down in
spite of all that | could do or the doe
tors could do. 1t held me in a grip like
fire in q burning coai mine. The poison
had gone all through and over me and
nothing was able to touch it. was
fast losing flesh and strength, and about
March, 1884, | knocked off work entire
ly and went home to be down sick, and
to die for all | could tell. Iran down so
rapidly that l soon became unable to
walk any distance. Later went from
room to room in my own house only by
friends holding me up by each arm The
doses of quinine were increased until
often toob thirty grains III c5 dose. The
effects of this Tremendous stimulation
was to make me nearly wild. 1t broke
my sleep all up, and | often walked the
floor, or staggered about it, all night
long, scarcely able to bear any noises
OF even human speech. My temper
was extremely irritable. As to food,
one of my little children would eat
more in a meal than I could in day.
l would order food and then turn from
it in disgust. [ lived on quinine and
other stimulants ana or myself. like a
bear in winter. The quinine set nv
head in whirl. and the liquor-given
as a medicine -made my stomach so
sick l could not tolerate it.
From 175 pounds (ny proper weight)
ran down to 81 pounds-the weight
of light giri-and was scarcely better
than a skeleton.
If anybody had taken q hGtchet and
k'socbed me dorm and killed me I should
haze been better of:
During the latter part of this period,
early in 1886, my physician said:
"Miller, there's no use in my taking
any more money of YOU. can't do YOU
any good. might pour pounds of 9ui-
nine down your throat and it wouldn't
help YOU
On the strength of this l gave up the
use of quinine altogether, and made I'D
my mind to do nothing more and take
my chances.
Three weeks afterwards-about the
last of May-my wife saw an advertise
ment of Kaskine i'll IL New York paper
She told me of it. l said: "Stuff and
nonsense! it can't do me any good"
But she went to q druggists, neverthe-
less. to get it. The druggist advised
her against Kasiline: he said it was
nothing but sugar; that she ought not
to throw away her money on it, &c.
He said he didn't keep it, but could get
it if she insisted On having it. Turn
ing away in disgust my wife spoke to
our neighbor, Mr.. A. G. Hegewald,
who got her bottle at q drug store in
Sixth avenue.
Almost against my will, and without
the least faith, l began taking it. In
one week 1 was better I began to
sleep. / stopped " seeing ghosts" l
began to have an appetite and to gain
strength. This was now the first of
June, 1886, and by the end of that
month | was back at my bench at C. P.
Smiths scroll saving factory in 10th
street, where work now.
ol1lCt lileH i nave never IOSU u udV
from sickness. Taking Kaskine only,
about forty pellets in four equal doses
a day, continued to gain The ma
laria appeared to be killed in my sys-
TEN, and now I've got back my old
weight-175 pounds-and my old
strength to labor. am an astonish-
ment to myself and to my friends, and
if Kasline did not do this l don't know
what did. The only greater thing it
could do would be to bring a dead man
to life. FREDERICK A. MILLER,
$50 East 1879. Street. New York.
P. S.-For the absolute, truth of the
above statement refer to the following
gentlemen, who are personally ac-
quainted with the facts: Mr.. Alex
ander Weir, 626 l56th St; Mr. George
Seaman, 15Sth street and Courtlandt
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anu CotlrtlanuI avenue; MI. I. I.
Naupel, l54th street and Courtlandt
ayenue. Mr.. John Luunv. GAO East